Tuesday, August 3, 2010

How to give a cat a bath (by Kat)

Why? Although he's the meanest cat in the whole dang world, whenever we're gone for more than a day the other cats kick him out of the house. He hangs out under an old carriage house kitty corner from our house. I believe it must have had a coal-burning stove at one point, or was at least used to store the coal for the adjoining home. Whichever the case may be, he will let us coax him out, carry him home, and then he shares the coal dust with the rest of the house.

I should mention that this cat scared the vet so bad she peed her pants.

Really.

Second scariest animal she's ever had in her office, she said. And this gal works on rodeo animals (think world-class bulls), strays, and a husband who scares the bejeezus out of me, so there you go.

I should mention that her digression that brought this on was simply entering the exam room and approaching the table. Let's just say his teeth weren't examined, his temperature never, uh, probed, and his prodigious gut never palpated.

4 comments:

3. OMG that last shot of your grapes - please tell me you found an awesome online resource for pruning? Every year our grapes never fully mature before succumbing to different problems - bad pruning, mold, rot, you name it. This is actually the best year ever. I hope they'll look as good as yours!

Paperseed~ 1)Yeah, and he isn't the largest of the bunch. 2) My teen daughter. 3) Pruning? That sounds like work! The only pruning it gets is to keep the vines from thoroughly closing the door and window in.

No way! So yours just grow naturally then. I guess mine are just super high-maintenance. Also, the four vines were planted way too close together, so we dug up two to give to friends (and so we'd have room for another smaller raised bed), and these last two were behind the first two and never got enough sun for years. Well, I've got my fingers crossed!